The University of Nottingham in the UK has confirmed suffering a data breach after the notorious ShinyHunters hacker collective leaked files stolen from the university’s systems.
The University of Nottingham is a major research university in the UK, ranked among the world’s top 100 institutions and home to more than 35,000 students on its UK campuses, plus thousands more at its international branches in China and Malaysia.
The ShinyHunters group listed the organization on its leak website and published gigabytes of files allegedly stolen from its systems. The hackers claimed to have obtained financial information pertaining to all of the university’s campuses.